Home Movies (Feb-Dec 1939)

MOVIE MASTER SOLVES YOUR EXPOSURE PHORLEM With a Better , Faster INDOOR Movie Film The pictures you've wanted to take are the pictures you're proud to show . . . when you take them with Movie Master S. S. Pan. Speedy S.S. Pan enables you to film indoor action shots with the ease of a professional photographer. Fully corrected for color — rated as fast as 50 Weston — the new Movie Master S. S. Pan is that better film you will want to buy "at the price you want to pay." S. S. Pan is available in 16mm at only $5.00 for 100 feet, processing included. Buy this better film at leading dealers everywhere. Speeds Day Tunglight sten Scheiner ... 26 23 Weston ... 50 32 Indoor Fun with Subject Film Liven up the party and charm the kiddies with the famous Movie Master Subject Films. Cartoon, comedy, Western, kid gang, educational, and others. Write direct for complete listing or see your dealer. I’VE GOT A Readers: This department is for your benefit. Send in your problems and our technical board of professional cameramen will answer your question in these columns. If an answer by mail is desired , enclose addressed stamped envelope. PH0BLEM materials as fool proof as possible. They want all users to get benefit and pleasure from the equipment. Poor equipment does not find a ready market and is a black eye to a manufacturers. The responsible firm stays away from this sort of equipment. Reversal Film (P. A. Newman, Lafayette, Ind.) All 8mm and 16mm film is Safety Film. In this fact is not mentioned in advertising it does not mean it is not safety. Safety means it is not explosive as is the film made on a nitrate base. Safety film has an acetate base and is very slow burning. All Eastman and Agfa reversal film includes processing. Some of the film offered independently does not include processing. Eastman 16mm Reversal Film cannot be used in 8mm cameras, as it is not perforated for 8mm use. Fades (P. A. Newman, Lafayette, Ind.) You can fade out a scene in several different ways. If you are shooting with a large lens opening you can make a fade by closing the lens down while you are shooting. There is a chemical called Foto-fade which you can use after your film has been processed by bathing the film in this chemical according to instructions. The third method is to use a fading glass while shooting. These glasses are clear at one end and gradually become opaque at the other. You slide this glass across your lens while you are shooting. Harrison and Harrison of Hollywood and E. M. Reynolds of Cleveland make fading glasses. Film Scratches (E. R. Robertson, Spokane, Wash.) Scratches on film may be caused by either the camera, projector or during rewinding. Inspect the gate on both your camera and projector. These should be inspected from time to time and cleaned. If hard particles of emulsion happened to be sticking to them, do not use a knife or other hard object to clean the gate, use a piece of wood something like the manicurst uses for cuticle. You can get scratches in rewinding if there is a grain of dirt adhering to the film and you cinch the film tightly by pulling it so that it pulls tightly over itself. Some do this when film is wound loosely. Lamp Wattage (E. Lowry, Kalispell, Mont.) We would not advise that you use a 750-watt lamp in your projector. It is not built for a lamp of such high wattage. Phis means the lamp itself will burn out quickly, you are endangering your film by burning it, and also the excessive heat will make it curl. If you attempt the 750-watt lamp, do not try a still picture with it. Eastman Developing (L. Eldon, Kansas City, Kan.) Fundamental Book (J. R. Nickson, Chicago) Possibly the best book for you to read is the Eastman book, “How to Make Good Movies.” This has a great deal of fundamental information that will prove valuable to you. It will also give you some of the information you ask in your letter in a more complete manner than we can give it to you in a letter. Viewer (N. J. Garrison, Pasadena, Calif.) You will find the new Eastman Viewer very good for 8mm film. We are sure it will not scratch the film or this firm would not market it. You will find that the leading equipment manufacturers attempt to make their The Eastman Company develop their 8mm film on a different machine than they use for 16mm film. However, they use the same developer. They must use a different machine because of the narrowness of the 8mm film, which goes through in a 16mnr width, requires two photo electric cells, one for each side, instead of one control as is used in 1 6mm film. Drum Development (H. P. Benn, Stevens Point, Wis. ) In your home reversal work the trouble may be that your drum is not going deep enough into the developer. As a general rule, a developer that is agitated takes less time than a tank developer which is not agitated. How• T urn to Page 77 PAGE 42 HOME MOVIES FOR FEBRUARY